Contributing factors to the recent high level of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) and power dissipation index (PDI) in the North Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3023-3034

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Li, Tim ^a   Hsu, Pang Chi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS; WIND;

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGIES; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; LIFE SPAN; MEAN MAXIMUMS; NORTH ATLANTIC; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SURFACE WIND VELOCITIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84898034169     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00394.1     Document Type: Article

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